The deconfinement phase transition and behavior of the pion multiplicity in nuclear collisions
Bugaev K. A. , Gorenshtein M. I. , Rishke D.
In the formation of the mixed quark-hadron phase in nucleus-nucleus collisions there is a special shock wave configuration which leads to a plateau-type behavior of the pion multiplicity as a function of the collision energy. This behavior can serve as a new qualitative signal of the deconfinement phase transition.